"Phoebus Apollo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that most important witness—whose coming was as Blucher's at Waterloo, and secured the well-earned conquest of the day—though it must be confessed that his appearance was something of the satyr, still had he been Phoebus Apollo in person, he would scarcely have excited sincerer admiration. More than one fair creature sketched his unkempt head, and loudly wished that its owner was a bandit; more than one bright eye discovered beauty in his open countenance—though a little soap and ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... frightened. But hark! what is that silver shimmer of the fiddles! Is it—can it be—the gray dawn peeping in the stormy east? The ghost's eyes look blankly towards it, and roll a ghastly agony. Quicker, quicker ply the violins of Phoebus Apollo. Redder, redder grow the orient clouds. Cockadoodledoo! crows that great cock which has just come out on the roof of the palace. And now the round sun himself pops up from behind the waves of night. Where is the ghost? He is gone! Purple shadows of morn ...
— Roundabout Papers • William Makepeace Thackeray
... a voice thou camest, O Battos, but thee lord Phoebus Apollo Sendeth as settler forth to ...
— The History Of Herodotus - Volume 1(of 2) • Herodotus |
